We often ‘go Dutch’ in restaurants and split the bill. When faced with a challenge, we look to summon up some ‘Dutch courage’. And if a person bangs on incomprehensibly, we might conclude that he or she is talking ‘double Dutch’.
Yet some of us (well, me at least) haven’t set foot in the Netherlands — the proper name of the country, rather than Holland, which only accounts for the two provinces of Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland and not the full